Date:         Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:01:17 -0400
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From:         Norm Saunders <marshhawk@ATT.NET>
Subject:      Sunday morning in Worcester County
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In the A.M. we went down-county to Truitt's Landing Road.  Best birds =
were a largish flock of 27 Glossy Ibis.  Only a few Forster's Terns in =
evidence, no other tern species yet.  Here are our sightings from =
Truitt's:

Red-throated Loon 8
Common Loon 3
Horned Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Glossy Ibis 27
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 3
Canada Goose 8
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 15
Green-winged Teal 13
Bufflehead 250
Hooded Merganser 1
Ruddy Duck 2
Bald Eagle 1
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Forster's Tern 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 25
Barn Swallow 2
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 2
American Robin 6
Palm Warbler 1
Field Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Common Grackle 25



Yardbirds today weren't terribly different from yesterday.  We managed =
to scope a few Black-bellied Plover over on the bayside of Assateague, =
but for the most part the small shorebirds were too far away for =
identification.

Worcester County Yardbirds, 6 April 2003:
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 2
Little Blue Heron 3
Canada Goose 13
Brant 1
American Black Duck 3
Mallard 8
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Osprey 2
Clapper Rail 1
Black-bellied Plover 3
Killdeer 1
Laughing Gull 1
Herring Gull 15
Great Black-backed Gull 4
Mourning Dove 6
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Fish Crow 5
Tree Swallow 8
Carolina Chickadee 6
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Eastern Bluebird 3
American Robin 6
Brown Thrasher 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 1
Eastern Towhee 3
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 3
Common Grackle 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
House Finch 5
American Goldfinch 8
House Sparrow 6

Best,
Norm & Fran

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Norman C. Saunders
Colesville, Montgomery County, MD
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